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Flickr via Google Images Standard deviation is a concept that's thrown around frequently in finance. So what is it? When working with a quantitative data set, one of the first things we want to know ...

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Standard deviation measures how spread out numbers are from the mean. Variance calculates the average degree to which each number is different from the mean. Both metrics help assess volatility in ...

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